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Musicians and Singers
Play one or more musical instruments or sing. May perform on stage, for broadcasting, or for sound or video recording.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Perform before live audiences in concerts, recitals, educational presentations, and other social gatherings.Mostly human for now
- 02Practice performances, individually or in rehearsal with other musicians, to master individual pieces of music or to maintain and improve skills.Mostly human for now
- 03Specialize in playing a specific family of instruments or a particular type of music.Mostly human for now
- 04Play musical instruments as soloists, or as members or guest artists of musical groups such as orchestras, ensembles, or bands.Mostly human for now
- 05Provide the musical background for live shows, such as ballets, operas, musical theatre, and cabarets.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Play from memory or by following scores.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Sight-read musical parts during rehearsals.Mostly human for now
- 08Seek out and learn new music suitable for live performance or recording.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Listen to recordings to master pieces or to maintain and improve skills.Mostly human for now
- 10Make or participate in recordings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
41%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 25% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 52% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Perform before live audiences in concerts, recitals, educational presentations, and other social gatherings.
- Practice performances, individually or in rehearsal with other musicians, to master individual pieces of music or to maintain and improve skills.
- Specialize in playing a specific family of instruments or a particular type of music.